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What do these major record-setting events have in common?
Nine of the ten costliest insurance events in U.S. history
Six of the seven costliest hurricanes in U.S. history
Three of the four largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history
Nine of the top ten natural disasters in U.S. history ranked by FEMA relief costs
The two largest terrorism events in U.S. history
All of these major catastrophes transpired on the very same day or within 24-hours of U.S. presidents Bush, Clinton and Bush applying pressure on Israel to trade her land for promises of "peace and security," sponsoring major "land for peace" meetings, making major public statements pertaining to Israel's covenant land and/or calling for a Palestinian state.
Are each one of these major record-setting events just a coincidence or awe-inspiring signs that God is actively involved in the affairs of Israel?
In this book, Bill Koenig provides undeniable facts and conclusive evidence showing that indeed the leaders of the United States and the world are on a collision course with God over Israel's covenant land.
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem." -Zechariah 12:9
Bill Koenig is the president of "Koenig's International News" (watch.org...). The daily news service has readers in 50 states and 79 countries. Bill co-authored "Israel: The Blessing or the Curse in 2001." Bill and his wife Claudia reside in the Washington, D.C., area where he is a White House correspondent.
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US Vice-President Joe Biden has again condemned Israel over a controversial building project, saying its approval undermined trust in the peace process.
Mr Biden was speaking after meeting the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank.
Mr Abbas also said the approval of another 1,600 homes in occupied East Jerusalem threatened the peace process and demanded the plans be scrapped.
Israel has insisted the move had nothing to do with Mr Biden's visit.
'Lasting peace'
Israel and the Palestinians had agreed to hold indirect "proximity talks" in a bid to restart the peace process, which has been stalled for 17 months.
However, the Israeli settlement announcement has cast a shadow on those talks, with the Palestinian Authority saying the approval showed Israel believed US negotiation efforts had failed before they had even begun.
ANALYSIS
By Jonathan Marcus, diplomatic correspondent, BBC News
Joe Biden was forthright in condemning Israel's approval of plans for another 1,600 homes in East Jerusalem.
In the future, he asserted, Washington would hold both sides accountable for any statement or actions that inflamed tensions or prejudiced the outcome of talks. Strong words. But was Israel's prime minister listening?
Many observers see Mr Netanyahu's priority as being political survival, and he is practiced in the art of navigating between domestic pressures and those coming from Washington.
Historical boldness, as Mr Biden put it, is not in his nature - nor in fairness is it part of the make-up of President Abbas. But that is just what the US now expects.
Mr Biden's mission underscores the fundamental ambivalence in the US position. It must seek to make Israel feel secure, because only a secure government - it is said - can take the risks needed for peace.
But equally it wants to exert some pressure over a government that, in resisting a full-scale settlement freeze, has pretty well outfoxed the US during the first year of President Obama's tenure.
Mr Biden told a joint press conference with Mr Abbas that he would condemn all statements that inflamed the situation or prejudiced the peace process.
He said the US would play an active and sustained role in the talks process and warned that it was "incumbent on both sides not to complicate the process".
"Yesterday, the decision by the Israeli government to advance planning for new housing units in East Jerusalem undermines that very trust - the trust that we need right now in order to begin as well as produce profitable negotiations."
Mr Biden said achieving peace would require both Israel and the Palestinians to take "historically bold" steps.
Mr Abbas said he was addressing the Israeli people in saying that the "time is right for peace based on two states - an Israeli state living in peace and security alongside a Palestinian state".
He said there should be a "permanent, lasting and just peace" that took in all areas, including Syria and Lebanon.
But he was also highly critical of the planning decision, saying it represented "the ruining of trust and a serious blow" to peace efforts.
Mr Abbas has refused to resume direct negotiations with the Israeli government because of its refusal to put a complete stop to the expansion of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Israeli denial
In November, Israel announced a 10-month suspension of new building in the West Bank, under heavy US pressure. But it considers areas within the Jerusalem municipality as its territory and the restrictions do not apply.
During their dinner on Tuesday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Mr Biden that he had no prior knowledge of the decision to authorise the new housing units in the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Ramat Shlomo, officials said.
He said the plans had been submitted three years ago and had only received initial approval that day.
"The district committees approve plans weekly without informing me," Interior Minister Eli Yishai, the chairman of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, told Israel Radio on Wednesday morning.
"If I'd have known, I would have postponed the authorisation by a week or two since we had no intention of provoking anyone."
But the US government has not accepted Israel's explanation that the announcement was essentially part of a bureaucratic process that had no connection with Mr Biden's visit, says BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen in Jerusalem.
Israel, deliberately or not, inflicted something close to a humiliation on the Obama administration and the words they chose in reaction reflected that, our correspondent says.
The UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband condemned the announcement by Israel.
"This is a bad decision at the wrong time. It will give strength to those who argue that Israel is not serious about peace," he said in a press statement.
"I condemn it as certain to undermine the mutual confidence we need."
EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton also condemned the move, saying it risked peace talks before they had even begun and called on Israel to reverse the decision.
The Arab League was due to meet in Cairo to decide on a response.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev insisted Israel had "a very good working relationship and a very good personal relationship" with the US.
He dismissed speculation that the interior ministry's announcement was a deliberate move by some members of Mr Netanyahu's cabinet to scupper any chance of peace talks.
The US special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, is scheduled to arrive in the region next week to conduct the second round of proximity talks.
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In this book, Bill Koenig provides undeniable facts and conclusive evidence showing that indeed the leaders of the United States and the world are on a collision course with God over Israel's covenant land.
A clear example of Israel's appropriation of the water belonging to Arabs is Israel's interest early on in diverting the waters of the Jordan River from the Jordan Valley to the Mediterranean and to the Negev.
Originally posted by TSawyer
reply to post by The time lord
Your whole hogwash of a thread falls apart due to the fact that the people who conquered Israel are not Hebrews, but are Khazars. They are from Mongolia, which is the land of Gog. You have your prophecy wrong as you don't even know the truth about the people in Palestine. You have been deceived by the devil. The first step is making you believe the Hebrews were European "Jews", these same Khazars are going to help usher in the anti-Christ. America, and the world, can only benefit by cutting the claws off AIPAC and saying no the apartheid, genocidal regime built on pure lies and spilled blood.
There will be NO consequences for doing this justice. We ARE experiencing the consequences of letting them rule our economy via Bernie Madoff, the Zionist Federal Reserve, and their created economic collapse. This world belongs to the devil and think, who rules the world? The same people who are from Khazars yet claim to be Jews. They are written in prophecy yet you Christians hail them as Hebrews, deceived.
Revelation 2:9
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Revelation 3:9
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
Your pseudo-prophecy claptrap falls apart due to the fact that the real hebrews are not in Israel yet, and the ones that are are being systematically destroyed by the conquering agents of Satan, whom you falsely call the true inheritance of Israel.
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18 While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, "Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, 19 when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"
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Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Bible passages predict the return of Israel to the land of Palestine. Here are only two.
Ezekiel 20:34 - "I will bring you from the nations and gather you from the countries where you have been scattered -- with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath."
Isaiah 11:11-12 NIV - "In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the sea. He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth."
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Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. He entered diplomatic service the year he graduated from university, accepting his first post in New Delhi, India. In the foreign ministry he established a reputation for modesty and competence.
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South Korean Navy Ship 'Hit By Torpedo'
Share Share CommentsPete Norman, Sky News Online
A South Korean naval vessel with more than 100 aboard was sinking in waters near North Korea after a suspected torpedo attack.
Officials in Seoul are investigating whether it was hit in a torpedo attack by the North, according to South Korean media.
A rescue operation is under way to save crew members on board.
Broadcaster SBS said many South Korean sailors on the stricken vessel were feared dead.
South Korea's YTN TV network said the government was investigating whether the sinking was due to a torpedo attack.
Relations between North Korea and South Korea and its allies have been tense for decades.
Yonhap news agency said the Seoul government had convened an emergency meeting of security-related ministers.
Yonhap also reported a South Korean navy ship firing towards an unidentified vessel to the north.
North Korea in recent weeks has said it was bolstering its defences in response to joint South Korean-U.S. military drills that were held this
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This page documents the tornadoes and tornado outbreaks of 2011. Extremely destructive tornadoes form most frequently in the U.S., Bangladesh and Eastern India, but they can occur almost anywhere under the right conditions. Tornadoes also appear regularly in neighboring southern Canada during the Northern Hemisphere's summer season, and somewhat regularly in Europe, Asia, and Australia.
As of July 7, there have been 1,621 tornadoes reported in the US in 2011 (of which at least 1,149 were confirmed). 2011 has been an exceptionally destructive and deadly year for tornadoes; worldwide, at least 557 people perished due to tornadoes: 12 in Bangladesh, one in New Zealand, one in the Philippines and an estimated 544 in the United States (compared to 564 US deaths in the 10 years prior).[2] Due in large part to several extremely large tornado outbreaks in the middle and end of April and in late May, the year is currently on near-record to record pace, with six EF5 tornadoes as of July 6. It is also the deadliest year for tornadoes in the United States since 1936, due mostly to the 322 tornadic deaths that occurred during the April 27 outbreak across the Southeastern United States and the 158 tornadic deaths in the 2011 Joplin Tornado.[3]
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President Barack Obama on Thursday made official the long-held but rarely stated U.S. support for a future Palestinian state based on borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war.
In the past, the United States has unofficially backed a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict based on the borders in place prior to the war 44 years ago in which Israel seized the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and Sinai Peninsula.
In a major speech Thursday, Obama became the first president to formally endorse the policy, but he also acknowledged the need for modifications through the negotiating process due to conditions on the ground.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
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Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.
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Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is your shield and helper and your glorious sword. Your enemies will cower before you, and you will trample down their high places."
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Psalm 68:34 Proclaim the power of God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose power is in the skies.
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The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you."
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